Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4231 14 Feb 2026, 12:05

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 163 0 0 0 0 163 21 0 21 25:10.598 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.811
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:24.002
And I update APT using apt 7.494
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.294
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
50.949
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 22.076
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.336
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.251
And persistence is disabled 0.174
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:5.171
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.056
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.415
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.101
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 39.210
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.515
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.523
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.117
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.180
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
37.007
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.843
And the system is very low on memory 9.241
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.167
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.105
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.106
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.391
And I free up some memory 0.843
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.852
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.180
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.615
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.753
And all tps features are active 1.396
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.371
When I disable the first tps feature 3.154
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.611
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.145
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.085
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
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13.475
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.950
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 2.594
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.495
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.550
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.532
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.567
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.261
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.499
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.546
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 10.039
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.374
When I write some files expected to persist 1.648
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.759
# XXX: The next step succeeds (and the --debug output confirms that it's actually looking for the files) but will fail in a subsequent scenario restoring the same snapshot. This exactly what we want, but why does it work? What is guestfs's behaviour when qcow2 internal snapshots are involved?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 13.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:22.872
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.780
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 10.944
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.131
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.849
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.227
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 41.264
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.396
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.102
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.137
Tags: @product
1:10.129
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.841
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.108
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.833
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 43.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:5.793
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.421
When I enable persistence 24.978
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.624
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.382
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.410
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.295
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.541
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.301
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.189
When I cold reboot the computer 8.044
And the computer reboots Tails 39.734
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.300
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.219
Given I enable persistence 7.319
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.086
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.290
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.498
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:26.404
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.498
# Note that if anything fails after the passphrase was changed and
# before it's changed back below, subsequent scenarios might fail
# because the Persistent Storage doesn't have the expected passphrase.
When I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage 38.953
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.031
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.922
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
Tags: @product
48.965
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.533
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.457
Then persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.488
And all notifications have disappeared 9.580
When I delete the persistent partition 3.372
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.524
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.067
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.092
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.083
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
Tags: @product
55.532
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.052
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 20.199
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.200
And all notifications have disappeared 8.757
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.406
And all tps features are enabled 1.459
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:26.944
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 43.462
And I enable persistence 28.477
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.492
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.675
And persistence is enabled 1.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.637
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.681
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.352
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.583
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.059
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 16.247
When I enable persistence 7.193
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.023
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.321
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 18.264
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.402
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.361
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.083
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.182
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.429
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.951
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.084
When I try to enable persistence 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.840
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I log in to a new session 11.737
And all notifications have disappeared 9.638
# Now both WhisperBack and Tor Browser has started at the same
# time, so we do not know which window is focused. The steps about
# Tor Browser care about that, but the ones about WhisperBack do
# not, so we first deal with WhisperBack and then kill it to
# ensure that Tor Browser is focused.
Then WhisperBack is prefilled for fsck with summary: "Failed to repair the file system of your Persistent Storage" 0.242
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.674
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.338
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.559
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.109
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.595
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 20.336
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.631
When I try to enable persistence 1.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.539
When I log in to a new session 12.543
And all notifications have disappeared 9.455
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.884
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000